The notices will go out by certified mail Monday, said Ryan Hightower, district spokesman.

The notices, which will inform recipients they may not have a job at the end of the academic year, are being issued to a number of elementary and secondary school teachers, some teacher specialists and some in other positions, district administrators said late last week.

A number of the layoffs are resulting due to the conclusion of a three-year School Improvement Grant that comes to an end this year, said Darren Knowles, assistant superintendent of personnel services.

The grant was used to improve academic performance at Pomona High School, Emerson Middle School and the Fremont Academy of Engineering of Design.

Two counselors paid through that grant will receive notices, he said.

Knowles added counselors paid for with money from the district's general fund are not being cut.

According to state law, school districts must is issue preliminary layoff notices to teachers and other certificated personnel no later than March 15.

School district have a deadline of May 15 to issue final layoff notices.

During the meeting, Associated Pomona Teachers President Tyra Weis urged board members to remember they should work to makes cuts in such a way that they have the least impact on what happens in classrooms.

"We urge this board to keep the best interest of the students" in mind, she said.

In addition to granting authorization to send notices to certificated personnel, school board members also authorized district administrators to issue notices to all 106 of the district's administrators.

Those notices will inform recipients they could be released or reassigned to a different job at the end of the school year.

Notices were hand-delivered to recipients Thursday, Hightower said.

School board members were expected to vote Tuesday night on a proposal to issue notices to eight child development teachers but that matter was removed from the agenda.

Child development services receive funding from the federal government.

The district is working to obtain additional information on how the federal across-the-board budget cut strategy, which went into effect March 1, will affect funding locally before proceeding with the proposal to issues those notices, Hightower said.